Sabres at Bruins Preview: Can the giant be felled twice?
The last times these two teams played, the Sabres beat the Bruins convincingly. Can they do it twice in a row, and win their third straight for the first time all season?
The Sabres and Bruins face off again tonight, their second game together in three days. The last time they played the last place Sabres beat the not-last-place Bruins 4-2 thanks to big efforts from Marcus Foligno, Brian Flynn, and even a goal from Drew Stafford (I know!)
Tonight, the Sabres will have to face Boston again without Cody Hodgson, who will be out for a few weeks thanks to an upper body injury suffered on Thursday. The newly acquired Linus Omark will take his place, though Ted Nolan would not say where.
It's Sabres/Bruins, Part II, tonight in Boston.
Game #36
Buffalo Sabres (9-23-3) vs. Boston Bruins (23-10-2)
Puck Drop - 7:00pm EST - TD Garden - Boston, MA
TV - MSG, Bell, NESN | Radio - WGR 550-AM
SBNation Bruins Blog - Stanley Cup of Chowder
Two Questions
1. Linus Omark will make his Buffalo Sabres debut tonight. How will he fare?
It's a stretch to expect Omark to make a huge impact tonight in his first game wearing blue and gold, but
2. Tuukka Rask has been surprisingly awful in his career against Buffalo. Will the Sabres continue to haunt his dreams?
Rask is 0-4-1 in his last five contests against the Sabres, with a 4.25 GAA to boot. And the Sabres did score 4 goals in their last game. Hmm....
Projected BUF Lines
Matt Moulson - Tyler Ennis - Zemgus Girgensons
Ville Leino - Steve Ott - Drew Stafford
Linus Omark - Marcus Foligno - Matt D'Agostini
John Scott - Brian Flynn - Kevin Porter
Christian Ehrhoff – Alex Sulzer
Henrik Tallinder – Tyler Myers
Jamie McBain - Mike Weber
Scratches/Injuries: Ellis, McCormick, Ruhwedel, Grigorenko
Projected BOS Lines
Milan Lucic - David Krejci - Jarome Iginla
Reilly Smith - Patrice Bergeron - Brad Marchand
Carl Soderberg - Ryan Spooner - Nick Johnson
Jordan Caron - Gregory Campbell - Craig Cunningham
Zdeno Chara - Johnny Boychuk
Dennis Seidenberg - Torey Krug
Matt Bartkowski - David Warsofsky
Tuukka Rask
Chad Johnson